Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-01-03

Police and fire uniforms ...... 2 500
Public buildings. -.-......-...,......... LOGO
Quarantine. ....................... $500
Salaries OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 1900
ScAvenscr rLment................ 1850
streets and lanes Observation-Disclosures. E2,5o0
Paving streets. ............... $1,000
W alter works. Observation-Disclosures. 10000
SINKING iuhu. ..-....-................ 5l,UVO
interest Observation-Disclosures. $4,000
Total ...,... Sbj2 600
= ORDINANCE to assess and levy taxes and
raise revenue Tor the city of savannah, for
the regulation of certain kinds OF business
In the corporate aud jurisdictional limits of
sald city; liking penalties for the violation
or the revenue ordinances of said city, and
Tor other purposes connected with taxes
and revenue of said city:
SECTION |. The Mayor and Aldermen of the
city of savannah. in Council assembled, do
hereby ordain, That from and after the first
day of January, 1887. the inhabitants of said
corporate and jurlsdictioual limits of said
city, and those who hold taxable property
within the same, and those who transact, or
oner to transact, business therein, except
such as are exempt from taxation by law,
shall pay toward the support of the govern
ment of said city, and for the safety, benefit,
convenience and advantage of SAID city, the
taxes hereinafter prescribed
SEC. IL. Every person and corporation own
ing real property in said city, including i'm
provements. shall pay II tax, to be assessed by
Council upon the value of said property by
the first day of April, 1887, at the rate OF two
and one eighth per centum of such value, ex-
cept on such property as may be exempt from
taxation under the laws of this State.
SEC. III. Every person and corporation
owning or holding in trust or on consignment
household, kitchen or office furniture, private
or professional libraries, watches, jewelry,
plate, musical Instruments, billiard tables in
private residences, stocks in money corpora
lions. bonds- notes and other evidences of
debt money solvent debts, stock in trade. and
every other kind of personal property what
SOeV6r feXCeDt vehicles uEad
poses OF pleasure and convenience
and hereinafter otherwise taxedl shall
pay a tax of one-half of one
per centum on the value of such personal
property 30 owned or held on the first day of
January, 1887, except such as may be exempt
from taxation by the laws OF this State or OF
the United States. The foregoing phrase
"stocks IN money corporations" shall not in
clude shares in banks or banking associations
organized under the authority of this state or
OF the United states, and located within the
City OF Savannah, whether the owner Of such
shares reside in the said city or esew where,
but the tax on such shares shall be three
tenths OF one per cent. per annum, in accord
ance with tax law OF the State: but nothing
In this or any other section of this ordinance
thail be construed to require any tax upon
the capital of any bank or banking associa-
SION organized under the authority of this
State or of the United States, or to require
any tax upon the shares of stockholders in any
such bank or banking association at any
greater rate than is required for other mon
eyed capital in the hands of individual citi-
ZeDs.
SEC ". Every shipmaster, captain, super
cargo, agent, or other officer of anv ship or
vessel. or other person who shall charter or
offer TO charter his vessel. or who shall sell
goods or articles of any kind from any vessel
or wharf or personally purchase cargo or COL
lect freight except through licensed broker
or commission merchant, shall be considered
commission merchant and pay the tax here
matter prescribed for commission merchants.
SEC. V. Every person transacting or Offering
to transact either of the kinds of business
hereinafter specified shall pay the tax herein
after prescribed for every separate place in
which he shall transact or offer to transact
business, viz:
Every auctioneer and commission mer-
chant, or auctioneer and broker, two hundred
dollar;
Every dealer in goods, wares and merchan-
disc, including dealers in drugs, etc. lin ad-
dltIOn to liquor tax or license), as follows:
Every dealer exclusively retail, forty dol
lars,
Every dealer exclusively wholesale or re-
tail dealer selling at wholesale, one hundred
and seventy dollars;
Every dealer in liquor doing exclusively a
wholesale business, three hundred dollars;
Every banker or bank agent, or agents Of
bankers engaged in buying or selling ex-
change, including every insurance company
doing banking business, two hundred and
fifty dollars; every bank, five hundred dol
lars;
Every cotton broker, broker or dealer in
stocks and bonds, money broker. and every
produce, grocery and naval stores broker
exclusive of brokers in liquor, seventy five
dollar;
Every ship broker, one hundred dollars:
Every dealer in butter, lard and cheese,
Every dealer in hides. wax and tallow,
eighty dollars;
Every broker for the sale of horses, cattle
or mules, who keeps no stable for the sale Of
same, eighty dollars;
Every dealer In horses, cattle or mules.
who keeps no stable for the sale of same.
eighty collars;
Every pawnbroker, three hundred dollars:
Every building and loan association, fifty
dollars;
Every loan association doing a banking
business, two hundred dollars;
Every fire or life insurance company doing
business, whether directly or through an
agency, two hundred dollars;
Every marine, accident or other insurance
company doing business, whether directly or
through an agency, fifty dollars;
Every person who shall be sworn by the
Mayor (who is hereby authorized TO admins
ter the oath for such purpose) rs a pub lie
weigher OF any goods, wares or merchandise,
twenty five dollars;
Every local average or insurance adjuster
other than an agent of an insurance company,
fifty dollars;
Every keeper or keepers Of a hotel that con-
tains seventy five rooms or upwards, two
hundred dollars;
Every keeper or keepers of hotel that con-
t6lns under seVenty-nve rooms, and having
fifty rooms, one hundred dollars;
Every Keeper or keepers of hotel that con-
tains under htty rooms. fifty dollars;
Every SOWING machine agent or agency.
1fty dollars, the same for each and every
agency;
Every dealer in sewing machines, fifty dol
lars;
Every dealer in coal, not paying tax as
wholesale dealer, seventv-five doliars;
Every dealer IN stationery or books, selling
exclusively at who esale, or at retail and
wholesale, one hundred dollars;
Every retail dealer in stationery or books,
forty dollars;
Every agent for or dealer in fertilizers, not
paving tax as commission merchant, one hun
dred and seventy do lars;
Every sailor BOARDING house keeper, fifty
dollars;
Every runner for sailor boarding house
twenty-five dollars;
Every owner or owners, lessee or lessees, OF
a cotton press establishments, three hundred
dollars: every haud cotton press, twenty i've
dollars,
Every the owner or owners, lessee or les
sees OF a junk shop. or junk dealer. one hun
dred aud fifty dollars;
A cotton pic&ery, &C. be confined exclusively
to the purchase or sale of cotton, one hundred
and seventy dollars; and all buyers OF loOir
cotton. who buy from other than cotton ts@ief
chants, one hundred and seventy doaI
Every the owner or owners of a SIS to Cot
ton gin establishment, one huncrgs OIL ars;
Every commission merchag factor. or
exporter OF cotton, lumber f,r,l al stores or
other merchandise, foreign. 'tStOastwise, or
agency. or reDreseutatiyPl -I0rm oil eXUorLers.